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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    19 years and you never brumate? Yes, in the website you posted. I also find another very accurate german website, I don't know why but Germans are really experts on geckos, with hours of reading about leopard gecko care and a guide for brumation...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Yes, during the day she always sleep there. It's her favorite place to rest. At sunset she wake up an go on warm hide or slate to warm up. This spring/summer she was very very active, from sunset she was wandering around the enclosure and digging continuously. She walked in my hand every time...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Hello Elizabeth, how are you? In these months Foxy became adult and she is very healty. Last week we do a check with poop analysis and it's all fine. This winter, I'd like to brumate her. I've read the advice of Esther Laue and other European breeders. I probably won't be able to get to 12°C...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Thank you. We had a guy build it for us... it's a panel that we fixed to the wall. Yes is aluminium.. i put it inside in december to help the irradiation of heat in the enclosure
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    An update of the vivarium..we try to ricreate natural habitat..we use as substrate desert bedding that is not small sand that can cause impaction. In the picture there is ceramic lamp because the spot is burn and I wait the new one.. with this naturalistic setup Foxy's behavior has completely...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    https://kaleidoskop-der-naturnahe.jimdoweb.com Is only deutsche, but with translation work.
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Yes water is always avaiable..humid hide humidity i don't know but I spray water in the coco fiber inside every other day. Finally last night she poop..after 13 days!!!from last one..the biggest poop i've seen:). I don't know if it help but I give her a little olive oil on monday evening and...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Hello Elizabeth, how are you? Foxy now stay all day, and night too, in the warm dry hide. She is active only at the feeding time when I give her insects with tweezers and I move it in the enclosure to stimulate foxy and simulate hunt. Saturday she complete another shed (and it was the only time...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    yes yes, it's always there now!! It comes out just in the late afternoon to take a walk on the cold side to drink, then it goes to sleep under a rock in the center of the enclosure and then around 7-7:30 pm it goes back to the warm dry hide.. then in the evening around 8 pm it looks out of the...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Yes yes I give carrots to insects a couple of times a week... crickets go crazy for them, roaches don't seem to like them. Thanks
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Yes, it has. Do you mean to feed bugs with carrots? Because I don't know if Foxy eat something that is not an insect
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    I think you were right, that she didn't like the hide. Since last night I have put the new ExoTerra one as a warm dry hide and in fact she is there sleeping. Arcadia website write that whit shadedweller minimum distance from basking point is 25 cm. But on basking point i have 25 cm, but on top...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    In order from left: warm hide, humid hide, cold hide. The last picture is the new warm hide that is arrived today. Whe choose to buy new warm hide because the actual in slate is very beautiful but every time we have to clean we have to rebuild it. PS We bought a gun termometer too
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    In your opinion this kit that Arcadia gives safe up to 20 cm of distance, which I would have easily, could work? I found it in a German online shop
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Yesterday while we were both at work she went into the warm hide because I found a piece of wood moved..she's smart! Now she's back to always staying in the humid hide when we're at home. But the trust process is improving a lot. Now if I put my hand in the enclosure in the evening after a...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    I'm return now at home and she is in cold hide..
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Digital with a probe like the thermostat. I buy it on Amazon, don't has a specific brand..but I buy 5 of this, 3 are the tort enclosure, and I calibrate all 5 with my home thermometer and only one was incorrect in the temp readings. The other 4, like the one that I use for Foxy, were all in the...
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    Warm hide temperature help and general info

    Good morning Elizabeth, I think she prefers to stay in the cold because after I moved her humid hide to the center in a warmer area she slept there for a day but yesterday she stayed all day in the cold hide to sleep and this morning she moved to sleep there again... during the day the cold hide...
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